JM-125: When Uncle Adlai goes a-wooing

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Editorial cartoon depicting Adlai Stevenson I calling on Miss Illinois accompanied by a personification of his war record, Roger Charles Sullivan, and a personification of the Golden Circle record. Stevenson ran for Governor of Illinois in 1908, at the age of 73, and lost by a narrow margin.
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JM-163: Suggestion for new seating arrangement in the Illinois state legislature

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This cartoon depicts the Illinois legislature in January of 1915. The legislature is divided into two groups, but not the traditional party divides of the Democrat and Republican parties. The two groups are "wet" and "dry." The members of the legislature sitting on the "wet" side are fervently against any prohibition legislation within the state of Illinois. The "dry" side is composed of politicians who favor implementing regulations of the distribution and sale of alcohol. The cartoon points out how this issue of prohibition has divided members of each political party, upsetting the status quo of the legislature (grouping by political party). These suggestions for alcohol regulations in Illinois were some of many being proposed throughout various levels of government in the United States at the time. Many found the temperance movement in the United States to be a more moral than political issue, making it a hotly debated topic within the Republican and Democrat parties. This cartoon was created only five years before the eighteenth amendment to the United States Constitution was passed, which declared the manufacture and sale of alcohol illegal. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)
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Structural reconnaissance of the Mississippi Valley area from Old Monroe, Missouri, to Nauvoo, Illinois

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Published also as Illinois. State Geological Survey. Bulletin no. 45.,Part of illustrative matter in pocket.,Includes bibliographical references.,LSO ID: umlr000019.
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